I am interested in getting build-dependencies for a source package on a system using aptitude. In the past I've used apt-get build-dep, but that was on systems managed with apt-get. I think aptitude won't know about apt-get's selections, and may toss the packages at the first chance (or perhaps get confused in some other way).
Is this analysis correct? If so, is there a good solution? The two other routes I see are to use dpkg-checkbuilddeps (but then I still need to get the output into aptitude) or to use one of the autobuilders that work in a chroot (which seems kind of heavy weight). Thanks. Ross Boylan cc's appreciated. P.S. apt-get build-dep has always made me a bit uncomfortable, since I presume it goes by the installed binary package. If you want to build some other version (e.g., system is testing but you want to build unstable) the dependencies aren't necessarily quite right. So I'd be happy to discover an alternative. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
